The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness..

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. T….

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking..

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them..

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already..

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve..

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight..

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it..

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest..

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills..

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even….

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age..

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special..

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so….

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything..

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know..

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard..

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done..

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted..

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm..